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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Valentine Petals

Inspiration

2 years ago when I first started blogging, I did a 14-day Valentine’s countdown, posting a different Valentine every day for the first 14 days of February. Ever since then, I’ve been kind of slow on creating Valentines. But I usually get “in the mood” and get a few made. Here’s my first design.

Instructions

Stamp the image in brown ink – once on the larger vanilla panel, and once on the white panel. Using COPICS, color the feet on the vanilla panel (I used E0000 and E00).

Color the full image (except the feet) on the white panel. Here’s the colors I used:

Face & Hands: E0000, E00, RV10

Petals: RV000, RV10

Shirt, Basket, Cap: R35, R37, E47

Berries: R35, G21

Cut out the fully color image – trim it closely, and cut off the feet, the hair curls, and the stem on top of the cap.

Assembly

Mount the patterned paper on the pink panel. Tie a knot near one end of the ribbon, and adhere it across the panel covering the seam between the different patterns of the paper. Mount this set on the front of the base card.

Mount the smaller pink panel on the small red panel, followed by the vanilla panel with the image on it. Now add the trimmed, colored image using foam tape on top of the image on vanilla. Mount this set on the card front to the left of the knot in the ribbon.

Punch a decorative label out of the red scrap. Stamp the Valentine greeting in red on the vanilla scrap and punch it out with the word window shape.

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